This was taken at 1280 x 960 I see it has stayed that way....in uploading ... The size I used to shot at....

CM Elephant and flower display;

or

Kamala Beach

Chern Talay

Road in Northern Thailand

This is my contribution ENJOY !!!!!

" Waters Edge " Bang Rak Koh Samui.

" Taling Ngam Fishing Boats " koh Samui

" All Aboard " Bang Rak Koh Samui

" Piggin Out " Chai's Motorbike Shop, Koh Phangan.

" Catch of the Day " Nathon Pier Koh Samui

Hi Folks,

Please remember that this is a Calendar Photo Contributions for The Thai 2014 Calendar, meaning April is Songkran, October is for King Rama 5, December is for His Majesty King Bhumipol Adulyadej of Thailand.

Just thinking aloud

Win

Oct is the veg festival :-)

Than again any month is good for sunsets !!!

Hi Folks,

Please remember that this is a Calendar Photo Contributions for The Thai 2014 Calendar, meaning April is Songkran, October is for King Rama 5, December is for His Majesty King Bhumipol Adulyadej of Thailand.

Just thinking aloud

Win

Ah, yes... Thanks for the reminder, KanWin.

Songkran, Petchabun town.

This "1280 x xxx size" is a problem with Picasa too... 800 or 1024 or 1600 or full size are the choices... Going to have to think how to resize to 1280 ...

Some great submissions so far...

This one is 1600.... let's see how many people have problems viewing...

Kids fishing and playing on the beach Ban Tai Beach, Samui.

Although your first posted shot of the other Thai guy was much better then this one, this shot looks more suitable for the calender, Jimmy.

That being said,.. I'll do a 1600, as well.

And will ask not only Tywais and Kanwin, but everyone here if this size is acceptable/readable for posting here. As a test..

What's Songkran without a pick-up, equipped with a decent 100liter barrel filled with water?

This "1280 x xxx size" is a problem with Picasa too... 800 or 1024 or 1600 or full size are the choices... Going to have to think how to resize to 1280 ...

Some great submissions so far...

This one is 1600.... let's see how many people have problems viewing...

Kids fishing and playing on the beach Ban Tai Beach, Samui.

Although your first posted shot of the other Thai guy was much better then this one, this shot looks more suitable for the calender, Jimmy.

That being said,.. I'll do a 1600, as well.

And will ask not only Tywais and Kanwin, but everyone here if this size is acceptable/readable for posting here. As a test..

What's Songkran without a pick-up, equipped with a decent 100liter barrel filled with water?

OK just to clarify what happened on my Chaing Mai Elephant pics, above... which are and where 1280 x ---

When I uploaded those, I did not check original size ... I clicked to upload at 1600 but because they were 1280 x --- already.... they stayed that way!

The kids with fishing net were much larger images... so that is why that image looks larger on the page at 1600.x

Perhaps Tywais can help with this? , as he's the one to sort this out, at the end of it all..... before getting too far into this.... most images posted so far seem to be smaller size! I could save a lot of time

But smaller image size won't print out so well... so need to be consistent??? Will have to take a boo and see what we did last year .... but perhaps the "goal posts" have changed!?

Regarding image sizes as I see there is an issue already. In the past I specified a minimum of 1024 in order to compromise as to being printable and to be viewable on monitors. The majority of monitors now support greater than that with 1366 wide becoming one of the most common ones so figured 1280 wide should be ok. That gives me 6.4 inches at 200dpi and obviously 300dpi would be optimum which would be 1800 pixels wide.

Large images than would be best uploaded as an attachment which will not cause a problem in some browsers. It is specific to Firefox from what I've seen and members using other browsers it is not an issue of being too large for their screens. Of course those members who are hosting their images on photo file servers I can't expect them to take another step to also upload as an attachment. I have a full HD 1920x1200 monitor so the 1600 wide are not a problem for me.

Just looked on my Flickr account and see that choices are 1024, 1600 and 2048 and original for sizes.

Perhaps 1280 - 1600 wide would be the optimum size range for a compromise for offsite linked images. Or if an uploaded attachment, 2048 wide is ideal. 1024 has worked in previous calendars if there are no other options.

Hey Tywais ... maybe some hints on what makes a good Calendar Shot.

For example what looks great as a photo, may not be the best candidate

for a galvanising image for the Calendar which is often viewed from afar.

W H A T M A K E S A G O O D P H O T O ?

The first characteristic of a good photo is

TECHNICAL QUALITY

In other words, the photo must be correctly exposed, revealing an accurate

reproduction of colours and a proper balance between highlight and shadow

areas. In addition, unless certain areas of the photograph have been purposely

blurred for effect, the image must be sharply focused. Aside from being

technically superior, all good photos have an immediate

IMPACT upon a viewer. Impact is created in a variety of ways: by capturing action at the

best possible moment; by presenting an ordinary subject in a non-ordinary

way; by eliminating objects that draw attention away from the main point of

interest; and by selecting a point-of-view that takes advantage of dramatic

lines, masses, colour and motion. Here are some general hints for taking good

pictures

http://media.westfieldgrp.com/www/about/Calendar_Contest_Rules.pdf

Just a thought ... though, I also appreciate the freedom of style to submit what the

contributor wishes to and is judged by his/her peers.

.

Hey Tywais ... maybe some hints on what makes a good Calendar Shot.

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To be honest, I prefer just the free style that members post with. Don't want to make this too complex and add conditions to the actual photography which could put members off.

Can we have a separate post for each photo please? It's difficult to like one photo in a multi photo post. Also camera/lens combo would be nice just for personal interest. There's some brilliant photos being posted.

Rice sunset

Sept/Oct is the time for the annual round of temple festivals in Northern Thailand. Here in Fang. Canon SX50HS.

River festival at ThaTon ..... Sept. .....Canon SX50HS

temple festival...Thaton ... Canon SX50HS

My take,

There some good photos here, but there not all photos valid /fitting for a calendar.

Suggestions, when u make a photography, vs taking a picture, have a idea what you want it to look like and where u want the center of attention to be

Example for the above photo, it would look much better if u had cropped out the right side,( yes i see u wanted to include the white Buddha but it detracts from the dancers) included the tops of the temple and not so much street, took two steps to the left and moved in or zoomed in closer, used a smaller depth of field to soften the background and waited till the dancer on the left front looked at you (she would have)

Akha kids play at their swing festival .....Sept.....Ban Huey Sala, Thaton .... Canon SX50HS

Akha swing fest ...Ban Muang Rae, Fang ...August ....Canon SX50HS

Doi Angkang ......border with Burma Army post ... Canon SX50HS

Doi Angkang, Ban NorLae ....... kids and dad cut banana trunk for pig food .... Canon SX50HS

School kids brush teeth after lunch.....Fridays they wear traditional clothes...... Shan school at WiangWai, Fang ..... Canon SX50HS

fishermen pass a buffalo enjoying the water on a hot day..... Thaton ..... Canon SX50HS

Palaung and Lahu kids sit on the playground awaiting release to go home at the end of school..... Ban Kop Dong, Doi Angkang, Fang ......Canon SX50HS

Palaung and Lahu kids in the lunch queue..... Ban Kop Dong, Doi Angkang, Fang ......Canon SX50HS